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Emek Rave

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About Me

Cosmically trying to make sense of things that stubbornly refuse to be made the slightest bit of sense of. So stubborn, in fact, that the very attempt to allude any type of sensibility to their more decipherable bits of behavior causes them to immediately get up and go to their room, slamming the door behind them and announcing that unless I particularly enjoy late night reruns of MASH I shouldn't wait up. Typical adolescent conduct but a little bit surprising coming from a 14 billion year old universe.

My Interests

Music's the context, the pretext is film, writing and literature, I love reshaping the way space and time are generally perceived. Parallel universes. Friendships, relationships and other invisible bonds. Anything British. Surrealism in museums, in cartoons and on the streets of Manhattan.

I'd like to meet:

thinkers, dreamers, revolutionaries, realists, fabricators, fantisizers, modernists, reactionaries, inventors, talkers, achievers, lovers and fighters, winners, losers and the occasional off-track better.

From our Sidewalk Cafe acoustic show, filmed and edited by Holly Anger (www.myspace.com/hollyverona):

Music:

Pixies, the Residents, Medeski Martin and Wood, Mingus, Lamb, Monty Python Music, Eric Dolphy, the Fringe, Latin music and Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Helicopter Girl, Renaldo and the Loaf, Sonic Youth, Ravel, Billy Preston, Piazzola, Barry Adamson, Yo La Tengo, Nick Cave, Benjamin Britten, Frank Zappa, PJ Harvey, Beck, Robert Wyatt, Jeff Beck, Beatles, Shostakovich, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Marc Johnson, Ivo Pogorelich, Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Stereolab, Pablo Casals, Bud Powell, Glenn Gould, Veruca Salt, Muddy Waters, Jan Garbarek, Feist, Eberhardt Weber, Leonard Cohen, Sonny Clark, Hilary Hahn, Ligeti, Breeders, King Crimson, Marc Copeland, Cachao, Cibo Matto, My Bloody Valentine, Cream, Stravinski, Danny Elfman, The Sugar Cubes, Macy Gray, Propellerheads, Ella, Glenn Gould, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, Herbie Hancock, Jesus and Mary Chain, Flamenco, Mars Volta, Jaco Pastorius, The Doors, Thelonius Monk, Laika, Cinematic Orchestra, Radiohead, Snakefinger, Weather ReportI obviously hate music..Something old, something new. As long as it's raw, fresh and dares to defy!

Movies:

2001 and anything Kubrik. Ghost World, Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Lost in Translation, Dr Strangelove, Life of Brian, the Blues Brothers, eXistenZ, Naked Lunch, the Unforgiven, Brazil, Waking Life, Coeur en Hiver, The Third Man, Mike Leigh's Naked, The Cook the Thief the Wife and her Lover, Paris Texas, Wild at Heart, City of God, Elevator to the Gallows, Austin Powers, the Pink Panthers, Eternal Sunshine, the Matrix, the Decalogue, Apocalypse Now, Delicatessen, the Meaning of Life, Metropolis (silent and anime), Buster Keaton, Mo Better Blues, Tarantino, Lynch, Cronenberg, Gilliam, Sin City

Television:

MASH, Conan OBrian, Flying Circus, Simpsons. That about sums it up. I'm not very big on television, it's not very big on me in return. We have an understanding.

Books:

The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich, Invitation to a Beheading, Ficciones and every word Borges wrote, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and all Douglas Adams, the Dubliners, Nausee (Sartre), Nietzsche, Kafka, Bukowski, Stoppard, Carver, Ginsberg, Nick Hornby, Calvino shorts, Dostoevski, Stephen Gould, Foucault's Pendulum, I'm a musician who reads just a little too much.

Heroes:

my friends are my heroes. anyone who can walk in between the raindrops, superheros need not apply! those who know when to fight and when to love and the difference between the two. everyday people who overcome without becoming bitter. people who still trust one another and trust mankind.

My Blog

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So I can cast quotidian in secretI spent a leap year carving your shadowout of titanic blocks of Reykjavik ice.At first I didn’t notice that you echomy glance, when crystal shards sparkle and da...
Posted by Emek Rave on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:36:00 PST

They don’t advertise for killers in the newspaper

Noisy Film Night 6: Blade Runner Thursday, December 27, 2007 9pm No Cover! Brought to you by Free Things Productions. It's a free thing! At the Tea Lounge, Park Slope, Brooklyn 837 Union Stree...
Posted by Emek Rave on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:48:00 PST

What Gore and Bush REALLY talked about..

Al Gore made his first visit to the white house since being defeated (or not) by Bush about 2 centuries ago. He and Bush appear side by side in a ceremony in the Oval Office honoring the American Nobe...
Posted by Emek Rave on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:12:00 PST

Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars?

Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch. As a consequence, nothing is better than always having an itch you can scratch sometimes, as a result of which nothing is worse than sometim...
Posted by Emek Rave on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:12:00 PST

Noisy Film Night 5  Watership Down

Long ago, the great Frith made the world.   Many many many many Easters later three bunnies by the ridiculous name of QB3 ate most of it.   Beginning from the end. Running in reverse a ...
Posted by Emek Rave on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

Cruelty to Animals

A surprising vacancy landed us a new Noisy Film Night on October 12th at the Tea Lounge. This time we condemned 'Watership Down' to be hanged by the neck until unambiguously dead. This is an animated ...
Posted by Emek Rave on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:59:00 PST

The Year of the Mermaid

semi-sweet sugar plum fairy he drank her all up there's nothing to her holy grail but a thin paper cupnot nearly enough for his ladies thirsthe took a second look at the paper and the empty cup and ye...
Posted by Emek Rave on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:17:00 PST

What's the fun in being a nun?

Maybe it's the sexy outfit, or never having to shave, or maybe denouncing carnal love forever is as stimulating as cherry coke and pop rocks?! Can hanging around morose monks provide thrills cheaper t...
Posted by Emek Rave on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:53:00 PST

Irony Pillbox

and babe looks so busy being unctuousand the next gas station over is neither far nor close to usten miles away from trouble you'll find me soaking four fingers in a paper cupwednesdays when you climb...
Posted by Emek Rave on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:15:00 PST

Dave Liebman and Bobby Avey, Vienna Dialogues at the Jazz Gallery

Dave's soprano is a snake charmer. Coaxing the serpent from his hiding is no mean task, and the crystal clear tone that Dave is so  easily capable of achieving will never persuade this venomous ...
Posted by Emek Rave on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:10:00 PST